Oh EA....

Agree

Don't forget their stocks are falling too.

Who's Donny and who's blood did you suck to get this high, Charlie Sheen's?

You could on past: xFire store
But yes, you missed the "+".

I never said Valve does everything right. It's true that they started it, and they're still doing it, and it's a mistake on their part. But for as long as Steam was the only digital distribution platform with exclusive titles, this wasn't a major issue. You'd WANT to use Steam anyway, because it's the best. And please note that there were and still are people, including myself, who rightfully complain about Steam as DRM.

But with Origin's creation, the exclusivity problem gets multiplied. So instead of learning from Valve's mistakes, EA has copied them. The point of competition is to improve the quality of a product or service, and to reduce the price for the customer. Origin does neither, and isn't even attempting to.

If Origin was really trying to compete with Steam as a service, it would not have any DRM, allowing you to play your games without an internet connection and without launching Origin at all. This would be a major selling point. Of course, it would also require that Origin holds regular sales, so that people have a reason to actually launch the program.

If that had been done, Valve would have been forced to re-consider Steam as DRM. That's competition, and it benefits the customer. What EA is doing now is not, and does not.

Read my comment below, which is one of the many reasons.

i bought kingdoms of amalur at retail and since i have a good internet conection (30MB/s) i decided to try to redeem the key without using the DVD to see how fast i could DL the game from origin servers. when i tried to input the key origin said that the key wasn´t usable. i was pissed off however i decided to use the DVD, and when i inserted the key with the DVD origin accepted the key. this anoyed me a lot.
After installed, i go to run the game and origin ask to update the game. origin updated the game and i tried to play it again and orogin decied to update again. after that update i decided to "reboot" origin and then kingdoms of amalur worked.
With steam i have a few problem now and then however they are little anoyances that i can forgive like for an game to work offline you have to play it while online first.
With origin when you buy a game on launch normally it has so many problems that you waste most of your time making the game work then playing the game.
let's be clear DRM sucks balls, however steam with the amazing sales and now a relatively bug free environemnet most gamers can forgive such existance. Origin on the other hand when begun tried to scan your computer to know everything about you, has lot of problems and "barrirers" to not let you play your games. it doesnt have copy the best of steam.
those are my experiences, i imagine that some people don't mind origin but we all secretly long for the time when we just had to install a game

Origin:

"You agree that EA may collect, use, store and transmit technical and related information that identifies your computer (including the Internet Protocol Address), operating system, Application usage (including but not limited to successful installation and/or removal), software, software usage [...]"

Steam:

"Valve® respects the privacy of its online visitors and users of its products. Valve recognizes the importance of protecting any information collected from users and has adopted this privacy policy that guides how Valve gathers, stores, and uses information from the use of Valve products [...]."

"[...] users agree that Valve may collect aggregate information, individual information, and personally identifiable information, as defined below [...]"

" "Individual information" is information about a user that is presented in a form distinguishable from information relating to other users but not in a form that personally identifies any user or enables the recipient to communicate directly with any user unless agreed to by the user in advance of such communication."

"[...] personally identifiable information [...]"

"If an associate of Valve is collecting such personally identifiable information within one of our products or online sites, Valve will make users aware of this at the time the information is gathered."

" If a user does not want to provide this information, the user may choose to opt out of providing this information "

See where this is going?

EA's openly snooping inside my Hard Disk and checking for software that doesn't have anything to do with Origin (it is not stated explicitly, true, but they did not state the contrary, so there's a grey zone in their ToS) and they also retrieve my IP address in order to pin point me if anything were to go wrong in their scannings.

Valve, on the other hand, does not explicitly collect information that identifies me as an individual and doesn't collect information outside of its "Valve products".

[EDIT] When the Steam software actually collects such personal information it also warns you, thus giving you the chance to accept or decline the operation that would cause that to happen. Judging from Origin's ToS, I doubt it's the same as Steam's[/EDIT]

I repeat, I don't like EA's ways.

YEAH WHAT A JACKASS I HATE THAT MOTHERFUCKER

...the entitlement of some people. Sheesh.

Problem is, I am still on XP for a while.